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Anonymous
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I just puked. My favorite is if you click on NYT Picks in the comments section and there is a guy who complained about taking "college math" and how he has never used it in the real world, yet he majored in History!

I'd like to know whether you want more or less mandatory math Angus ... it's not clear from your "horse hockey" statement.

For my part, I was astounded that this guy thinks we need to teach more useful math, like understanding the CPI. This is something that has disappeared (or been severely cut) from most principles texts. I stopped covering it in principles years ago - there were far too many students who couldn't do weighted averages, and it was slowing down the students who could.

People are going to think you're one of those libertarian clowns for that opinion though ;) Doesn't everyone know that teenagers never drop out or lose interest in anything except in cases where non-liberals make them do bad things because they're just mean? ;)